Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are bald. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are carrotty. Why do I not kiss you, Philaenis? you are one-eyed. He who kisses you, Philaenis, sins against nature.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.

If you are poor now, Aemilianus, you will always be poor. Riches are now given to none but the rich.

He who weighs his burdens, can bear them.

You'll get no laurel crown for outrunning a burrow.

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

It is not, believe me, the act of a wise man to say, "I will live." To-morrow's life is too late; live to-day.